The first shots and video of what is thought to be the successor to Nintendo Wii have surfaced online and it shows off the new controller which does seem to have a touch screen in the middle of the controller and is remarkably similar to the current Xbox controller.
Nintendo are expected to show the new, yet to be named, console at next months E3 when they take to the stage to show off the new console.
The video is thought to be a video from a hush hush developers meeting from a few weeks ago - and you can even see what the console looks like as there is a metallic box stood up in the background.
Although this box might be a storage device which the presentation is running off - but we'd take a bet that it's the new console especially as you can see a similar shape in some of the slides in the video.
Well the rumours and predictions of what Nintendo will show off at E3 are ramping up daily and here's what we know so far.
First up is internal storage. There appears to be a consensus on how much storage the Wii 2 (Or whatever Nintendo decide to call their next gen console) will have. Various rumour miners and news outlets have the figures for internal storage pegged around the 8GB mark with all of that storage coming in the form of onboard flash memory meaning if these rumours are to be believed the Wii 2, like its predecessor will have no internal hard drive.
Again all sources seem to agree on this and 25GB seems reasonable given Nintendo's tendency to drift towards the lower end of the technology spectrum.
Nintendo finally seems to be ready to step into the HD era with their next generation console. Nintendo stated at the Wii launch that HD TV sets were not ubiquitous enough to warrant the hardware requirements to support outputting HD resolutions.
This cant be said today with research putting the adoption rate of HDTV's at around 59% in the UK with the vast majority of that segment being made up by gamers. HDTV's are getting cheaper and cheaper by the day so we’d expect HD is a given.
Power - More Powerful than the xbox 360 and PS3 This shouldn't really be a surprise if it was to be true, the Xbox and PS3 are nearing their seventh and sixth years of existence so it should be possible to produce a console with superior specifications while still keeping in line with Nintendo's efforts to stay cheap and appeal to the mass market.
Leaked imagery , if we choose to believe it, seems to indicate that Nintendo have taken steps to battle the problems they have historically had with 3rd party support and they have made these changes at the very ground floor of the system, the developers SDK.